[Linaro-validation] the need for three instances: production, staging and ... dogfood?

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On Fri, 04 May 2012 12:19:25 -0500, Andy Doan <andy.doan at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 12:18 AM, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> > So we'd have:
> >
> >   * production: duh
> >   * staging: this is _solely_ used to determine if changes that have
> >     landed to the trunk of some component are safe to deploy to
> >     production
> >   * dogfood: random hacking
> >
> > I think that potentially we could have some way of bringing up dogfood
> > instances as needed in our private cloud, but tbh for now one on control
> > that we share amongst ourselves in a loose way (i.e. check on IRC before
> > doing stuff with it) would be a useful thing.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> 
> I'm +1 on this. I'd been thinking the same thing. I want it really easy 
> to try out a change that hasn't yet been merged and "dogfood" fits that 
> requirement. I'm not a huge fan of the name, but I can't think of 
> anything better and don't want to get stuck bike-shedding.

I'm just stealing names/process from the Launchpad team, as usual :-)

> Along the lines of another thread we had. I think we should have one 
> dedicated board for this instance also.

Yeah, indeed.

Cheers,
mwh